Hortonworks,
a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and
support of Apache Hadoop, today announced that technical staff member
from the office of the CTO Steve Loughran will present two sessions at
ApacheCon Europe 2012, being held November 5-8, 2012 at the
Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. Hortonworks is also sponsoring
the community event.

During his “Inside Hadoop-Dev” session, Loughran will walk attendees
through Apache Hadoop's development process, including the people behind
the platform, where the code lives and how codes and processes are
tested and released. Loughran will also discuss how attendees can get
involved, from submitting bugs, patches and beta testing to larger
undertakings. This talk will further discuss how development can be
improved, particularly through the support of larger and exploratory
projects.

What:

“Inside Hadoop-Dev”

Who:

Steve Loughran, Hortonworks technical staff

When:

November 6, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. CET

Where:

ApacheCon Europe 2012

Rhein-Neckar-Arena

Sinsheim, Germany

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Steve Loughran’s second talk, “High Availability of Hadoop,” will look
at the ongoing work on Apache Hadoop 1.1 and 2.0 to improve service
availability. He will discuss how the Hadoop community is working to
eliminate failover and improve recovery of the master nodes, add
resilience to clients and make stack layers resistant to transient
dependency outages with the ultimate goal of making Hadoop clusters
highly available.

What:

“High Availability of Hadoop”

Who:

Steve Loughran, Hortonworks technical staff

When:

November 6, 2012 at 5:15 p.m. CET

Where:

ApacheCon Europe 2012

Rhein-Neckar-Arena

Sinsheim, Germany

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Mark Your Calendars: Hadoop Summit Europe 2013

Alongside Yahoo!, Hortonworks will co-host Hadoop
Summit Europe at the historic Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on
March 20-21, 2013. A gathering of the brightest Apache Hadoop
developers, data scientists, data professionals and solution providers,
Hadoop Summit Europe will be the first European conference focused
exclusively on accelerating the enterprise adoption of Apache Hadoop. To
register or submit a speaking session, please visit: http://hadoopsummit.org/amsterdam/.

About the Speaker

Steve Loughran is a member of the technical staff at Hortonworks, where
he works on leading-edge developments within the Apache Hadoop
ecosystem, including service availability, cloud infrastructure
integration and emerging layers in the Hadoop stack. Previously,
Loughran worked at HP Laboratories on large-scale distributed systems,
including cloud computing infrastructures, dynamic Hadoop clusters and
configuration management. He is the author of the book Ant in Action, a
member of the Apache Software Foundation and an active committer on the
Hadoop core projects. Follow Loughran on Twitter: @steveloughran.

About Hortonworks

Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the
preeminent open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing big
data. Our distribution, Hortonworks
Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable
foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy
big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on
Hadoop, and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making
Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. Hortonworks
provides unmatched technical
support, training and certification programs for enterprises,
systems integrators and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com,
or follow Hortonworks on Twitter: @Hortonworks.

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